Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing ... to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent ...

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually ... The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents.